Issue 8, April 2007

Topics covered in this issue include the role that course design has in improving pace of play. Is slow play really down to golfers who believe that adopting Tiger’s pre-shot routine will make them play like the world number one? Or can careful design/renovation create courses on which play naturally flows more quickly? See our feature for the views of some of the world’s best-qualified commentators.

Getting established as a golf architect is tough. We speak to a number of relatively youthful architects and profile their routes into the profession. Plus, British designer Jonathan Gaunt remembers his early exposure to the work of Philip Mackenzie Ross, and fellow architect Tom Mackenzie addresses his critics on the controversial proposed alterations to the famous Old Links at Musselburgh.

In our ‘On Site’ section we take a look at the alterations currently being made to Turnberry’s Ailsa course in preparation for the 2009 Open, play the exciting new Links at Las Palomas in Mexico and visit Celtic Manor in Wales to see the course being built specifically to host the 2010 Ryder Cup.